Robin Williams Quotes
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Okra is the closest thing to nylon I've ever eaten. It's like they bred cotton with a green bean. Okra, tastes like snot. The more you cook it, the more it turns into string.
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For me, comedy starts as a spew, a kind of explosion, and then you sculpt it from there, if at all. It comes out of a deeper, darker side. Maybe it comes from anger, because I'm outraged by cruel absurdities, the hypocrisy that exists everywhere, even within yourself, where it's hardest to see.
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I used to think the worst thing in life was to end up all alone. It’s not. The worst thing in life is to end up with people that make you feel all alone.
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A woman would never make a nuclear bomb. They would never make a weapon that kills - no, no. They'd make a weapon that makes you feel bad for a while.
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If Heaven exists, to know that there's laughter, that would be a great thing.
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Canada is like a loft apartment over a really great party.
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When you look at Prince Charles, don't you think that someone in the Royal family knew someone in the Royal family?
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Make your life spectacular. I know I did.
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You can start any 'Monty Python' routine and people finish it for you. Everyone knows it like shorthand.
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I think the saddest people always try their hardest to make people happy because they know what it’s like to feel absolutely worthless and they don’t want anyone else to feel like that.
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You are a big country. You are the kindest country in the world. You are like a really nice apartment over a meth lab.
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Carpe per diem - seize the check.
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I left school and couldn't find acting work, so I started going to clubs where you could do stand-up. I've always improvised, and stand-up was this great release. All of a sudden, it was just me and the audience.
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I'm much more open to being a supporting actor right now. At the age of 60, I'll be second fiddle. Fine. I'm happy to do it.
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When the media ask George W. Bush a question, he answers, 'Can I use a lifeline?'
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If it's the Psychic Network why do they need a phone number?
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The improv, sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn't, but when it does, it's like open-field running.
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Never pick a fight with an ugly person, they've got nothing to lose.
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The things we fear the most have already happened to us.
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I loved school, maybe too much, really. I was summa cum laude in high school. I was driven that way.
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You'll notice that Nancy Reagan never drinks water when Ronnie speaks.
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All it takes is a beautiful fake smile to hide an injured soul.
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Acting is different from stand-up. It gives you this ability to enter into another character, to create another person.
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I write on big yellow legal pads - ideas in outline form when I'm doing stand-up and stuff. It's vivid that way. I can't type it into an iPad - I think that would put a filter into the process.